Wringer



April 16, 1929. v R IN 1,709,072

WRINGER Filed Sept. 29, 1927 IN V EN TOR.

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Patented Apr. 16, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VINCENT GEHBLEIN, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO LOVELL MANUFACTUR- ING- COMPANY, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF IPENNSYLVANIA.

WRINGER.

Application filed September 29,1927. Serial No. 222,826.

This invention is designed more particularly to improve the drain board construction of a wringer. Such drain boards as are made up in production vary in width and one of the purposes of the present invention is to so design a central portion of a drain board on which the working parts are arranged that side plates of-dilferent widths may be secured thereto, thus permitting of a standard central construction. Details and features of the invention will appear more fully from the specification andclaims.

A preferred embodimentof the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings as follows Fig. 1 shows a front elevation of a wringer.

Fig. 2 a section on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 a section on the line 3-3 in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 a section on the line 1'4 in Fig. 3.

1 marks the wringer base, 2 the side stiles,

- 3-3 the wringer-rolls, 4 the top bar, 5 the tension spring, and 6 the tension screw. These are, or may be, of ordinary construction.

A center plate 7 extendsacross the base and it has the downwardly extending projections 8, these being dropped slightly at 9 to form a shoulder. Side plates 10 are secured to the projections 8, the inner edges of the side plates engaging the shoulder. These may be secured by rivets, or spot welding as desired. The side plates have the usual side flanges 11.

The center plate has the up-turned flanges 12 at its ends and feet 13 have the upwardly extending portions 14 which are secured to the flanges 12. The portions 14 have slots 15. The base is provided with a key-hole slot 16. A bolt 17 extends through the slots 15 and 16 and is provided with a thumb nut 18 by means of which the centerplate issecured to the base.

A tilting board, or plate 20 is pivotally secured by pins 21 on the upturned flange 12 and upward projection 14. i This plate is adapted to be swung so as to continue the side plate 10 from either side. It is provided with a projection 22 on its underside drip boards of different widths as may be required is to change the side plates 10. It will be noted alsothat the connection between the side plates and the center plate is covered by the tilting plate.

W hat I claim as new is 1. In a clothes wringer, the combination with a wringer frame and rolls arranged in the frame, of a drip board having a centerplate, side plates extending from the center plate, and a tilting plate pivotally secured at both ends to and carried by the center plate, said center plate being removable from the wringer frame in a direction at right angles to a plane through the axes of the rolls.

2. In a clothes wringer, the combination with a wringer frame and rolls mounted in the frame, of a drip board having a center plate, side plates secured to the center plate, and a tilting plate pivotally secured at both ends to and carried by the center plate and covering the connections between the center plate and the side plates, the center plate being-removable from the wringer frame by a movement in a direction at right angles to the axes of the rolls.

3. In a clothes wringer, the combination with a Wringer frame of a drip board having a center plate having upturned flanges at its end and downwardly extending side projections, feet secured to the drip board, means forsecuring the drip board to the wringer frame acting on said feet, side plates secured to the side projections, and a tilting plate secured to the center plate and projecting over the side projections.

'In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

VINCENT GEHRLEIN. 

